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posted by martyb on Friday June 21 2019, @09:36AM   Printer-friendly
from the Thin-blue-racist-line dept.

Facebook may be trying to censor hate-speech, but others are putting it to good use.

From CNN

Law enforcement agencies in Dallas and Florida on Thursday became the latest to announce they are investigating allegations some of their employees made offensive comments on Facebook after a watchdog group compiled screenshots of the posts and shared them in an online database.

The screenshots of the public posts, published in the Plain View Project's online database, purport to show officers or police department employees making hateful or racist remarks.

[...] Since its founding in 2017, the Plain View Project says it has compiled images of more than 5,000 social media posts and comments by more than 3,500 current and former police officers in eight jurisdictions throughout the US.
Researchers obtained rosters of police officers and then looked them up on Facebook, according to the project's website.

After examining the profiles to confirm they belonged to police officers, they reviewed public posts and comments to see if they would "undermine public trust and confidence in police."


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  • (Score: 2) by krishnoid on Friday June 21 2019, @10:10PM (1 child)

    by krishnoid (1156) on Friday June 21 2019, @10:10PM (#858674)

    If you were a store owner, would you want to hire (or keep as an employee) someone who advocated coming to your store and shoplifting, vandalizing the place, and/or harassing the customers and employees? I'm sure you can come up with other scenarios which are even more apropros.

    You callin' me a thug? Hey, get a load of dis guy! Listen, ya mook, you keep out of my face and we won't have any trouble, you got it?

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  • (Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Friday June 21 2019, @10:20PM

    You callin' me a thug? Hey, get a load of dis guy! Listen, ya mook, you keep out of my face and we won't have any trouble, you got it?

    What up troop? Who you callin' 'mook'? You best step off before I have to rough you up.

    You feel me?

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